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Obesity might cause inflammation in the brain, shouts out the latest headliner coming out of the NPR News. According to the NPR articl...

Does anyone remember the professor/researcher at Harvard Medical School, Dr Frank Hu, who came up with the conclusion that if a person was...

In case you haven't heard of the Obesity Action Coalition, they are a group determined to rid the world of obesity by way of weight loss...

Every so often someone sends me an email, entitled "The People of Walmart". Apparently, these are supposed to be uproariously fun...

Malissa Jones of the UK first made the news in 2008 when she became the youngest person to have a gastric bypass in her country. At the tim...

In a metastudy in Canada, researchers found that in initial weight loss, the intestinal bypass was the most effective and running close se...

GlaxoSmithKline has announced it's dropping the OTC version of Orlistat i.e. Alli, a diet drug from those drugs they sell. Ironically...

Interestingly enough, the news article in many news services including the NY Times, suggesting a "new breakthrough" in obesity d...

ABC News broke the story with the headline, "Stomach Pacemaker could help obese lose weight!". A new device, they continued, reco...

A recent announcement stated that the UK had done 450 TOGA procedures for treating obesity. The TOGA procedure offers an "incision-les...

A study which followed 400 gastric bypass patients , found that the average BMI at the 2 year point, was 32, still obese. The study was con...

Surgery used to be something done to save lives. But now it's often done for other reasons like to lose weight. Recently a 52 year old ...

An article on CNN covers the weight loss of a man who went (they claim) from almost 500 lbs to "one-der-land". The man, Matt Hoov...

A new study of 1.5 million people suggests that obesity, even overweight, shortens your lifespan. So says the study - obese people are 44% ...

Lately the reality show, "The Biggest Loser" in which they sequester several clinically obese people, put them through grueling wo...

Is Weight Loss surgery really , safer than being fat? That's the conclusion of a Weight Loss surgery surgeon from Baylor, at least. In ...

An article on the Philly burbs tells how the show, "The Biggest Loser" suffered a significant loss in the ratings - 25% down. Th...

There are three new diet pills which are being boasted about in the news as safe and effective. In a nutshell, no they are neither safe nor...

I have noticed a new media campaign hawking gastric bypass for diabetes. And not only that but also they are suggesting this surgery (which...

In the latest from (who else) the ASBMS (the professional organization for bariatric surgeons), they presented a study in which they compare...